Recent findings have revealed that speculations of Nigerian residents in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) barred from applying for jobs advertised in the Middle East country as a result of the recent arrest of Hushpuppi, may be false.
Some of these Nigerians had departed their homes in the hope of securing lucrative jobs in the oil rich United Arab Emirates, having lost hope in their own country and its system.

For many of them, however, the decision has turned out an awful error as many employers in the oil rich country are said to have barred Nigerians from applying for jobs, even when such jobs are meant strictly for Africans.

With the Eldorado they chased from Nigeria to Dubai, the UAE capital not anywhere in sight, many of them are desperate to return home, but they are not only stranded but also frustrated.

Their plight became public knowledge after a social media post indicating that Nigerians in UAE were precluded from applying for available jobs in the Asian country went viral.

Given that the post came on the heels of the arrest of Hushpuppi, the alleged notorious cybercrime kingpin, many were fast to attribute the predicament of other Nigerians in UAE to his atrocities.

But Nigerians who spoke with our correspondent from the UAE were unanimous in declaring that their plight had nothing to do with Hushpuppi. The ban on Nigerians, according to them, had been in effect long before the fraudster’s issue.

What then are the sins for which UAE employers prefer the nationals of smaller African countries to those of the so-called giant of Africa?

Femi Johnson, a Nigerian resident in Dubai, said: “I saw the information barring Nigerians from applying for the advertised vacancies.

When I asked why, I was told that it was not an official decision of the UAE government but that of employers of labour.

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